A former congressional intern killed aboard a Metro train in Washington, D.C. on Independence Day was repeatedly punched and stabbed during a struggle with his attacker, witnesses told police, according to documents made public Tuesday.

According to CBS D.C., Sutherland was a recent graduate of American University and previously interned for Connecticut Congressman Jim Himes on Capitol Hill.

Spires appeared in court Tuesday and was ordered held in jail until at least his next court date on July 17.

Court documents say one witness saw Spires attempt to take something from Sutherland's waist area and that they struggled over the item before Sutherland was punched and stabbed in his chest, back, sides and arms. The witness says Spires threw Sutherland's cellphone at him as he lay bleeding on the train car's floor.

Now, we don't know for certain that Mr. Sutherland was an SJW, but the evidence points that way since The Democratic congressman for whom he interned certainly is one, as was Sutherland himself.

Civil Liberties and Civil RightsIn 2009-2010 the Human Rights Campaign gave Himes a rating of 100% due to his stance on human rights and liberties. This rating also extends to his position on sexual orientation and gender identity.ImmigrationIn 2009-2010 the American Immigration Lawyers Association gave Himes a rating of 100% due to his stance on the defense of immigrants in the U.S.

I'm sure you'll be surprised to learn that Congressman Himes supports gun control. Some might think this murder was a tragedy. It wasn't, any more than it is when some lunatic decides to jump into a tiger's cage. Only it was even more stupid.

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Entertainingly, WaPo's story on this generated a whole lot of second-guessing over the other occupants of the train car failing to intervene while the assailant stabbed the victim upwards of 40 times and attempted (by eyewitness accounts) to score an extra point by kicking the prostrate man's head a couple times in preparation, apparently for trying a walk-on for the NFL.

We actually do know for certain he was an SJW. In fact I posted on his twitter account his last words "Not All Blacks Are Like That". A train full of people an no one willing to help with a drugged up black beating then stabbing an Obama supporter to death. Well if anyone did help he Sutherland would probably have called him a racist.

FTR, this is an excellent example of why OC sprays are, where legal, an essential EDC. Only some of us are skilled enough to thwart a bat-guano crazy, wild-animal frenzied attack from a young male, even if not his immediate target.

It's also a wonderful example of how the embrace of the Left's narrative renders people vulnerable to otherwise open and visible dangers of the jungle. You can't duck the fist if your mind's filters delete its sensory signal before it gets to your brain, and you won't avoid (polar) bear traps if your mind denies the traps' very existence.

Maaaan ya'll all be raciss. This (attacker) was a good boy dindu nuffin. He was on his way to Grandma's house. He was turnin' his life around. He was an aspiring rapper and was hoping to get into the NFL.

The reason nobody helped him was because it was a guaranteed way to at best require hospitalization.

I never cease to be astonished at the TV-informed idiocy (not you, base) that believes "fights" are small potatoes. People die from "little" fist-fights. All it takes is a little bad luck, not to mention this clown had a knife and was in Full Animal Mode.

The Argentine who was winner of an international strong man competition was murdered by a scrawny guy with a knife. Size, strength and even skill do not make for certainty.

The Good Samaritan who wades into combat takes on massive risk. Every fight has an uncertain outcome. The only relatively safe intervention here would have been to soak the guy's face with OC (e.g. Sabre in the stream version.) It would have stopped the assault and made the train car temporarily a hazmat zone, but the wielder probably would not have been prosecuted.

Of course, you have a point. There was a reason no one in that train car was carrying OC (or illegally carrying a gun, or if they were, elected to take care of Numero Uno.)

Colin Flaherty's current collection of videos is both astonishing and painful to watch.https://www.dropbox.com/sh/o7goj5idfl5tjff/AAC86iJ8pkXFauWQm-0nf8NNa?dl=0

The one where a middle-aged woman tells the reporter, "he din do nuffin, he shot a cop, that's nuffin" is jaw-dropping. A guy who killed a cop was hiding in her house, with her explicit permission.

Coral snakes and King snakes. They resemble each other so much that it takes great effort to discern whether you're in the presence of harmless or poisonous.

If the "we are the world" Narrative inverts far enough, all snakes sporting red, yellow and black rings may invite extreme measures from a populace suddenly fed up with worrying about it, and the more the Left lies about this reality, the greater the likelihood of "extreme."

"I wonder how many more SJWs will need to directly experience the full consequences of Equality, Diversity, Tolerance, and Progress before they finally come to their senses and abandon their mindless, unquestioning faith in the mirage of social justice . . ."

Reality: the great equalizer and a merciless teacher.

As long as they insist on playing the fool, the beatings will continue apace.

3. Freddie forgets that ferocity tends to dominate physical altercations and might wish to watch the lower left-most video in the collection Flaherty posted in the link above, where an example of ferocity is wonderfully displayed.

I'm not going to risk getting shot, stabbed, or even so much as punched for the sake of some stranger. Screw that. The list of people for whom I'll put my life on the line is short, and strangers on the metro are never on it.

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The only relatively safe intervention here would have been to soak the guy's face with OC (e.g. Sabre in the stream version.)

You know, I heard just this weekend that wasp spray is just a effective at disabling an attacker as pepper spray, but has the additional advantage of being a) aimable, with a greater range and b) not classified as a weapon.

When I would write or call his office on a 2nd Amendment issue, the responses (when I received one) were dismissive and bordered on snark. Especially when I requested clarification on the vagueness of the first response, or demanded to know how Himes was going to vote.

And Congresscretins don't answer their own correspondence, so it's entirely possible that this dead shitlib was the actual responder.

Ironic. But not surprising.

No tears shed. I am beyond caring about progressives. The difference between a dead skunk in the road and a dead liberal in the road is the skidmarks in front of the skunk.

"You know, I heard just this weekend that wasp spray is just a effective at disabling an attacker as pepper spray, but has the additional advantage of being a) aimable, with a greater range and b) not classified as a weapon."

Feather, read the label on the can. It's a crime to use it on a non-insect. And in this environment, you would get prosecuted.

It would be tough to live in a constant awareness environment. I imagine that it would be much like living in a middle eastern country with active sectarian battles going on. Americans are not used to living in such spaces, due to the sanitization in the past to remove most violent groups. The concept of PTSD being writ large on a population due to constant exposure to a dangerous environment also will evolve behaviors to minimize it, such as the elimination of threats on a preemptive basis. These behaviors will return again, as they always do, but only if government does not interfere to reduce the ability of the civilized population to take action.

This last part is the reason for the story, of course. SJW's will not try to reverse their course, but will retreat to enclaves while proclaiming their commitment to diversity, and leave their defense to their servants. An SJW's mind would prefer to be killed rather than realize they hate themselves and the world they inhabit.

Freddie, you are ill-informed. To earn my permit to carry a pistol, I had to study the law. If I were to intervene in that struggle, I'd have to use enough force to repel the attacker's deadly knife attack and that likely means using deadly force to counter his deadly force. When arrested for killing the young Black man, I'd have to confess that I killed him but ask the judge for permission to justify the killing on the theory of Defense of Others. The judge is not required to grant permission, and the jury is not required to believe me, and if either of those happen, I'd be convicted of murder and sent to a prison full of Black men who know what I did.

Or I can sit there watching the other guy die as I'm on hold for 911 to report it. Those are my two legal options in the society SJWs have created. I'm not a coward, I'm a law-abiding citizen doing exactly what I'm instructed to do . . . leave it to the professionals in law enforcement.

If you want to wade in and get yourself killed, go right ahead. I'll make a second call to 911 for your corpse.

A young white SJW Nutmegger taken out by a dindu. And yes, if he's working for Himes, he'd have to be an SJW.

Lowest birth rates in the United States among whites are in CT, RI, and MA. They have to be at German levels, ~1.3-1.4 per woman or so, since with vibrants included they're only at 1.6 (source), and (non-Hispanic) whites only have slightly more than half the births in those states.

We need to check Jasper Spires name against the hacked email list of Planned Parenthood.

He may have been attempting a post-birth abortion harvest of tissues for stem cell research; then it would be completely legal. I'm sure Sutherland would be completely onboard with this as long as no one profited.

". If I were to intervene in that struggle, I'd have to use enough force to repel the attacker's deadly knife attack and that likely means using deadly force to counter his deadly force. When arrested for killing the young Black man, I'd have to confess that I killed him but ask the judge for permission to justify the killing on the theory of Defense of Others. The judge is not required to grant permission, and the jury is not required to believe me, and if either of those happen, I'd be convicted of murder and sent to a prison full of Black men who know what I did."

You live in a really shitty state.

In many states defense of others is a positive defense. The standard is different... for example in TN you have to merely BELEIVE you are in danger to defend yourself... but if you defend someone else, believing isn't enough. You have to believe it, and you have to be correct.

In this case... intervening in TN would be a clear cut case of justifiable homicide.

If he could speak today, I imagine he might say something along these lines," This poor minority is not to blame,oppressive policies and the as-yet unaddressed white patriarchy which still dominates the global stage are."

A person is justified in the use of force or threat to use force against another when and to the extent that the person reasonably believes that the conduct is necessary for self-defense or the defense of another against the other person's imminent use of unlawful force. However, the person is justified in the use of force likely to cause death or serious bodily harm only if the person reasonably believes that the force is necessary to prevent imminent death or serious bodily harm to the person or another or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.

45-3-104. Use of force in defense of other property.

A person is justified in the use of force or threat to use force against another when and to the extent that the person reasonably believes that the conduct is necessary to prevent or terminate the other person's trespass on or other tortious or criminal interference with either real property, other than an occupied structure, or personal property lawfully in the person's possession or in the possession of another who is a member of the person's immediate family or household or of a person whose property the person has a legal duty to protect. However, the person is justified in the use of force likely to cause death or serious bodily harm only if the person reasonably believes that the force is necessary to prevent the commission of a forcible felony.

@BGS, except in summer (when heat stroke risk is real), it might be money better spent to get level 2 body armor. Knife protection is probably similar for slashes to the industrial t-shirt you linked, but neither is all that good against stabs. For that you have to go up to the stuff prison guards wear, which I think is virtually chain mail. The level 2 armor gives you the obvious benefit.

Of course, my view is that if you live or work in a place where daily wear of such stuff seems prudent, it seems more prudent to relocate. As others have said, they carry a pistol because they DON'T expect to get into a gunfight. If a gunfight was expected, they'd simply NOT GO, and if that wasn't an option they'd bring a rifle...and friends with rifles.

"If he could speak today, I imagine he might say something along these lines," This poor minority is not to blame,oppressive policies and the as-yet unaddressed white patriarchy which still dominates the global stage are." "

"I wonder how many more SJWs will need to directly experience the full consequences of Equality, Diversity, Tolerance, and Progress before they finally come to their senses and abandon their mindless, unquestioning faith in the mirage of social justice:"

Like New Transformed America, I'm 100 percent on-board with Equality, Diversity, Tolerance and Progress as long as I'm cocooned in my Gated Community and somebody else is getting stabbed and beaten to death in public. While I hold forth before the Nation, bombasting on how So Much More Needs to Be Done. Hey looks like she's a-gettin' done!

As corollary, Women and 'Other Minorities' also should be given all the writing, editing, and literature positions and awards, as this Teaches A Lesson to those Evil White Christian Males who have oppressed them and trodden them down for thousands and millions of years. <-- trodden

As America again has proven, almost all violence (whether psychological triggering or physical) comes from the massive Inequality of the Christian Religion, and from the violent, debased Evil White Males who practice it.

I feel a lot safer (and prouder!) knowing that Congressman Himes and the rest of D.C. firmly and fanatically agree.

1. Why do you assume that all the other people on the train were White? What bias of yours gives you that idea?

2. When a SJW is hoist with their own petard, it's not a tragedy, it's a comedy. We're just enjoying the show. Furthermore, are you so certain of your bravery, or do you just really enjoy heroic fantasies? Don't call people cowards unless you're sure that you would have done better.

3. Mad dog aggressors tend to dominate in physical altercations. Are you so racist as to think that Blacks are mad dog aggressors?

Nate 34 and Rabbi 37: point taken (we can't even have firecrackers or bottle rockets here, the politicians are worried we'll blow off our fingers and set our roofs on fire). We have a similar self-defense statute but it's a defense, meaning first you admit you shot him, then you defend your actions. The risk is the higher courts in this state have decided the judge is not required to let you argue self-defense to the jury any time YOU want to, the judge decides if there's enough evidence for HIM to let you argue it to the jury. And even if you do get to argue it to the jury, there's nothing saying they have to believe you, a White man who shot a poor, innocent Black child on his way to church who needed money for the collection plate. Maybe the media and prosecutors in DC are more like Tennessee than Minnesota; for your sakes, I hope so.

I really would not go "pepper spray" in this situation.I have tested that crap on me and others (when I worked in close protection we tested a lot of stuff) and at best it might slow you down a bit. It won't stop a frenzied knife attack at all.

If I wanted to stop that attack my preferred tactic would be to approach from as an unseen angle as possible and go as hard and fast as possible for a head kick first. Followed up by a barrage of hits as hard and fast as I could make them to incapacitate the guy immediately. And it's quite possible if you did that right you could get unlucky and end up with a dead criminal. If a head kick wasn't possible/practical then i would go for a breaking the leg type, like a really strong one to the knee from the right angle. And if I had any kind of weaponisable objects I would use them.

There's a bible verse that gets misinterpreted all the time, and goes something like "Live by the sword, Die by the sword". This is usually misinterpreted to mean "Swords are bad, don't resist when killed".

A much more accurate interpretation is that if you are going to live your life swinging swords, i.e. making it your reality, you are going to die by someone's sword.

Apply this to the SJW. He helped create the diverse reality populated by vibrants that he lived in, and he died by it.

Of course, sticking your tactical pen into the vibrant's neck and getting off the train without being identified would be considered a "good kill". Not a good strategy to hang around and watch it bleed out.

I have tested that crap on me and others (when I worked in close protection we tested a lot of stuff) and at best it might slow you down a bit.

When I worked in a Louisiana restaurant I was right there when the business owner used that stuff to break up a fight. He kept spraying it inches from the fighters faces. Didn't slow anyone down. Had to throw a bit of food away.

There's a bible verse that gets misinterpreted all the time, and goes something like "Live by the sword, Die by the sword". This is usually misinterpreted to mean "Swords are bad, don't resist when killed".

A much more accurate interpretation is that if you are going to live your life swinging swords, i.e. making it your reality, you are going to die by someone's sword.

I've heard an interesting intrepretation of that from a veteran, who treats it as a promise.

After all, would a warrior prefer to wither and die of old age, or in glory on the battlefield in his prime?

Wow.. a 24 yo man is dead and we laugh... i fear the universe was a way of dealing with such callousness. I like to think that if I were there I would have done something as would be the case for many here... The death of a young person SJW or otherwise in such a manner is tragic .. i cant help think JH 15;13. although hopefully it would not require that level of commitment.

And, as VD pointed out, the author of the Slate piece DID NOT MENTION THE ETHNICITY of her attackers. So... let us not assume. It's rather hilarious that she didn't mention that. Even once. And a little sad.

When I worked in a Louisiana restaurant I was right there when the business owner used that stuff to break up a fight. He kept spraying it inches from the fighters faces. Didn't slow anyone down. Had to throw a bit of food away.

I had hoped for better. I already have experience with what happens when you pound a man in his nuts during a fight, when he's drunk as hell and enraged.

Nothing. Not---one.damn.thing. I had seriously hoped for better from OC.

This leaves cutting tendons, breaking multiple long bones, major shock or damage to the central nervous system or other very serious if not irreversible actions, the kind often administered with a knife, a gun or a baton...the kind that get extreme scrutiny and Monday-morning-quarterbacking from (potentially politically ambitious) DA's.

@89 dc. sunsets: At one point during my time in the military, I chose to carry a small (3 lb?) sledge hammer with a short handle in ambiguous situations. No bigger or heavier than a full size auto pistol, and while you may require an explanation for having it with you, any explanation will do. "I found it at the bus stop" would work. Now, lay that forcefully to the back of the skull of young Mr Jasper Spires and see if he doesn't straighten up and fly right. CAUTION: Don't try this more than once. Nobody will believe that you twice found a hammer at the bus stop.

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